While the Impact scour the globe, MLS preseason marches along with a weekend full of highlights. We start with Sporting Kansas City's 2-1 defeat of D.C. United with DC scoring their lone goal in the closing stages. Here are the highlights along with reactions. SKC manager Peter Vermes reveals that the game was scheduled to go 120 minutes and DC “had to back out of the last 30 minutes because they have some injuries on their team.” (VIDEO)

The hard work of the preseason won’t faze aspiring rookie Cyprian Hedrick, who was one of the surprise picks in the SuperDraft by Sporting KC. He has faced a fair share adversity as it is with his move to the USA from Cameroon, including some bouts with racism and the passing of his mother six years ago: “I don’t expect or want people to feel bad for me in any way, because things work out the way they work out. I just hope I can be one of those under-the-radar guys who comes in and makes a name for himself.”

Get used to this name: Gyasi Zardes. Many have labeled him the best prospect in college soccer and he’s considered a Home Grown player for the LA Galaxy. But his college coach reveals that playing time was a major reason he decided to stay at Cal State Bakersfield this year: “The Galaxy has David Beckham and Robbie Keane so it would have been hard for him to get a lot of playing time in the early time of his [pro] career. It probably helps his development playing one more college year.”

Montreal Impact fans have exactly one week to go to submit a design for the club’s captain’s armband. Fans create it and fans get to vote for it. Find out the details here.

If it were up to the Seattle Sounders, they would have had Danish midfielder Christian Sivebaek two years ago when they first laid eyes on him. “We liked what we saw, knew he was young and had interest in him then, but it was something couldn't be worked out with the club,” says manager Sigi Schmid. “You have to be patient sometimes.”

Could 19-year-old Whitecaps prospect Russell Teibert, who was used as an attacking winger as a rookie last year, make the move to left back and become Vancouver’s version of Manchester United’s French left back? “He is quick enough and has good balance to be a sort of modern fullback,” says ‘Caps assistant Collin Miller. “If you look at a player like Patrice Evra -- he is strong, but not a particularly big guy.”

Evra was involved in the chief topic of discussion this weekend from England as another pregame handshake controversy erupted. This one occurred after Luis Suárez and Evra failed to shake hands in the Manchester United vs. Liverpool pregame ceremony. Suárez was the subject of all the criticism after the incident and has since apologized. (VIDEO)

Here’s the real question American soccer fans are pondering: Why would the English Premier League rule this shot by Fulham’s Clint Dempsey to be an own goal by Stoke goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen? They botched this one. Watch it here. (VIDEO)